[June 15, 2026, Shangrao, Jiangxi News] Today, CFMOTO achieved a historic top speed breakthrough in China's motorcycles at the CCCC Automotive Comprehensive Test Site in Shangrao, Jiangxi. Its 1000cc superbike, CFMOTO V4 SR-RR, equipped with a fully self-developed V4 core power platform, challenged by two generations of top Chinese riders, Dupont and Huang Shizhao, achieved a measured top speed of 315.82 km/h*, successfully breaking the top speed record for domestic motorcycles. With this extreme performance, CFMOTO has helped China become the fourth country globally to break the 300 km/h+ threshold, declaring that Chinese brands have officially entered the ranks of global motorcycle top performance.
300 km/h+ is a major technical efficiency watershed in the global high-performance motorcycle field. Liter-class superbikes have historically been the track with the highest technical barriers and strictest R&D thresholds in the global motorcycle industry. CFMOTO's V4 SR-RR broke this monopoly this time, marking that China's motorcycle self-developed power technology has crossed the world-class threshold, refreshed the performance boundaries of the Chinese motorcycle industry, and established new industry benchmarks for Chinese brands to participate in global high-end competition. This challenge was monitored and recorded by the National Motorcycle Quality Inspection and Testing Center (Chongqing) and the National Notary Office of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province throughout, ensuring the authenticity and validity of the measured data.
CFMOTO Vice President Chen Zhiyong stated on site: "This top speed breakthrough of the V4 SR-RR stems from CFMOTO's long-term persistence in self-development and refining technology through global top-level events. Today's success means that Chinese motorcycles have officially realized a role shift from technical catch-up to leadership. Now, our self-developed liter-class models have successfully joined the ranks of world-class top performance technology, representing that Chinese strength is beginning to deeply participate in and reshape the global high-performance motorcycle industry landscape. For this, CFMOTO feels deeply honored and proud."
CFMOTO V4 SR-RR Measured Top Speed 315.82 km/h*, Successfully Breaks Top Speed Record for Domestic Motorcycles
This challenge was monitored and recorded by the National Motorcycle Quality Inspection and Testing Center (Chongqing),
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
National Notary Office throughout, ensuring the authenticity and validity of the measured data
From "Manufacturing" to "Innovation", Hardcore Self-Development Breaks Core Technical Barriers
This top speed breakthrough broke the long-term technical monopoly of Japan and Europe's high-end brands, reflecting a systematic leap in the Chinese motorcycle industry in core technology areas. For a long time, liter-class motorcycles have been considered the "peak of the pyramid" technology area of the global power industry, involving complex system engineering capabilities such as engine thermal management, high-rpm stability, aerodynamics, and electronic control coordination, long dominated by a few overseas brands. The CFMOTO V4 SR-RR that created this record, as an engineering prototype before formal mass production, is neither a special edition nor a race-spec version; it represents the pinnacle of Chinese fuel power technology. And its realized 300 km/h+ top speed breakthrough means that Chinese motorcycle brands have truly mastered the core password of world-class top performance power platforms.
As the core of the vehicle, the V4 SR-RR is equipped with CFMOTO's self-developed 997cc 90-degree V4 water-cooled four-cylinder engine, MotoGP racing-sourced technology, with a maximum RPM of 15,000. Maximum power is 157 kW (over 210 hp), vehicle dry weight controlled at around 180 kg, dry weight to horsepower ratio of only 0.86, matching global top superbikes in key indicators such as power output, weight reduction control, and high-speed stability. Related patents for this engine have exceeded 40, with core components to system integration all being forward self-developed.
More importantly, the breakthrough represented by the V4 SR-RR this time is by no means a single-point display of skills, but is based on a complete independent technology system: The V4 SR-RR is equipped with MotoGP World Motorcycle Championship sourced counter-rotating crankshaft technology, the first application of this technology on a domestic model, effectively suppressing wheelies at start, greatly improving agility in corners. At the same time, the V4 SR-RR is also equipped with an active electronic control adaptive wing system. As one of the first global mass-produced active aerodynamic kits, this system can automatically adjust angle according to vehicle speed, reducing 12% aerodynamic drag during acceleration, and increasing 45% downforce on the front wheel at high speeds.
In addition, the vehicle is equipped with a full-dimensional electronic safety system e-CBS (combined front and rear braking), bi-directional quickshifter, hill start (VHC), 6-axis IMU sensor, cornering ABS (cornering anti-lock braking system), full-function TCS (full-function traction control system), cruise control, and other multiple intelligent protection functions, achieving comprehensive safety backup while unlocking extreme performance, providing multiple safeguards for Chinese riders to create this top speed achievement.
Chinese riders Dupont and Huang Shizhao drove CFMOTO V4 SR-RR to break China's Top Speed Record
Promote Research Through Racing, Tempering Chinese Technology from World-Class Tracks
Top speed breakthrough was not accomplished overnight, but is a concentrated result of CFMOTO's long-term persistence in the strategy of "promoting research through racing and combining research and use". Continuous high-intensity R&D investment is the fundamental guarantee to break technical barriers. In 2025, CFMOTO's R&D investment was 1.22 billion yuan, accounting for 6.18% of operating revenue. As of the end of 2025, the enterprise has cumulatively obtained 2,119 authorized valid patents, including 242 invention patents, and participated in formulating 71 national, industry, and group standards.
At the same time, for many years, CFMOTO has continued to work hard, through deep participation in global top-level events such as MotoGP, W2RC, tempering core technologies such as power platforms, chassis control, and aerodynamics in extreme conditions, verifying product reliability, gradually building an "racing verification—technology iteration—mass production landing" R&D closed loop. In the 2024 season, the CFMOTO Aspar team won the MotoGP Rider/Team/Manufacturer Triple Crown, becoming the first Chinese manufacturer champion in MotoGP history. At the same time, CFMOTO, by acquiring equity in the Moto2 chassis king Kalex engineering company, directly gained globally leading chassis engineering technology, massive racing R&D data, and top-tier manufacturing processes, achieving a leapfrog improvement in technical capabilities. Distinguishing from international brands "track technology slowly transferred down", CFMOTO realized synchronous iteration of racing R&D and civil mass production: MotoGP-verified power curves, chassis rigidity, and electronic control algorithms were quickly applied to CFMOTO's V4 SR-RR and 500SR models.
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Also relying on rich technical engineering and service experience accumulated from global top-level events, CFMOTO continues to rapidly integrate globally top-level track technology and experience into mass-produced civil high-performance product capabilities, and through years of continuous unremitting efforts, continuously refine its own technical R&D strength, while also constantly promoting supporting parts enterprises to synchronously share track-level manufacturing processes, upgrading precision machining capabilities, thereby helping the industry chain change the past reverse engineering Japanese style old path, vehicle manufacturers and parts manufacturers synchronously start forward development, pushing the entire industry's technical ceiling to lift. Finally, through the systematic support of China's intelligent manufacturing system and supply chain capabilities, it successfully stably landed "track-level performance" into the achievement of "mass-producible liter-class superbike".
CFMOTO V4 SR-RR Core Team Representatives
From Technical Pursuit to Global Competition, Chinese High-end Motorcycle Industry Chain Collaborative Upgrade
The V4 SR-RR's historic breakthrough is not only a technical milestone event for CFMOTO, but also a concentrated embodiment of Chinese motorcycle industry chain collaborative upgrade. From core engine precision components, lightweight forged kits, to high-end electronic control systems, aerodynamic supporting components, and intelligent hardware and software, many domestic "Specialized and Innovative Enterprises" collaborated to tackle difficulties, relying on China's complete industrial manufacturing system and rapid iteration capabilities, jointly promoting domestic motorcycles to reach international leading levels.
Behind this breakthrough is reflected the development trend of Chinese manufacturing continuously leaping towards high-end, intelligent, and globalized. In the past, liter-class motorcycles were long seen as the "crown jewel" of global industrial manufacturing capability and power technology levels. Now, Chinese enterprises are achieving breakthroughs in this high-technology, high-threshold field, and gradually building increasingly solid global competitiveness. CFMOTO's technical upgrade and capacity expansion are now becoming a key force to drive regional industry chain aggregation, achieving "One move of the leader activates the whole board". Such as relying on the Zhejiang Wen-Tai Auto-Motorcycle Parts Industry Belt (Ruian, Yuhuan, Jinhua) and the local industry foundation of Chongqing Motorcycle Capital, the enterprise has built a 100-kilometer supply chain circle, achieving high precision, low-cost manufacturing: Hangzhou headquarters connects closely with many local supporting enterprises; while Chongqing production base pulls Sichuan-Chongqing local parts manufacturers to expand production and upgrade, helping them turn to medium-to-large displacement precision parts supporting to realize industrial upgrade. In terms of intelligent experience improvement, deepening application with official partners Insta360 and Amap Open Platform, joined forces in scenarios such as smart image recording, smart navigation, achieving deep empowerment of smart riding.
At the same time, as an internationally leading power sports brand, from "product output" to "brand output + technology output + local manufacturing" systematic success, CFMOTO's global development strategy pace is clear. As the global leader in ATVs, the enterprise possesses both two-wheel high-end breakthrough and JINCHI Electric rapid growth. And overseas R&D production channel full coverage, racing-driven brand premium, etc., prove that CFMOTO has become a global benchmark for Chinese power equipment.
Upholding global development concepts, CFMOTO continues to layout global R&D, manufacturing, and marketing systems. Currently, the enterprise has built three major manufacturing bases in Hangzhou, Chongqing, and Zhuzhou domestically, and laid out production bases in Thailand and Mexico, business covering over 100 countries and regions, owning more than 9,000 distributor networks, and constantly bringing more and more "China Smart Manufacturing" boutique products to users around the world, creating a brighter, high-end Chinese brand business card.
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From technical pursuit to independent innovation, from product going global to brand going global, CFMOTO is pushing the Chinese motorcycle to complete the leap from "capable of manufacturing" to "capable of optimizing", from "participating in competition" to "defining standards" with the V4 SR-RR's historic top speed breakthrough. The V4 SR-RR is not only a Chinese liter-class superbike, but also the epitome of CFMOTO's "Racing Driven, Technology Self-Developed, Global Layout" strategy, marking that the Chinese motorcycle has officially joined the world high-performance first tier. In the future, CFMOTO will continue to deeply cultivate high-performance power core technologies, help the Chinese motorcycle industry move towards high-end, intelligent, and internationalized directions, injecting more Chinese power into cultivating new quality productive forces and building a manufacturing powerhouse.
*This record is a GPS top speed achievement realized by professional riders driving Chinese fuel motorcycles in a closed test site, officially certified by the National Motorcycle Quality Inspection and Testing Center (Chongqing) and the National Notary Office of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
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